I think we should stop worring about @nytimes.com. I doubt it is a must read among the majority of people out in the streets today.

Our money.

“It’s terrible to realize that Trump’s power to rip apart our country depends on his access to the money that we pay into the national treasury.” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-w...

Is he okay?

Just now on MSNBC Mark Elias of @democracydocket.com just put the hard period on the end of that NO, about “maybe the John Bolton indictment is legit”.

A damn shame.

"Marc Benioff doesn't actually care if San Francisco is getting better or not. He doesn't care about actual policies. He just wants Daddy Trump to like him, so now he's gonna be fully in on fascism as long as he can keep his f*cking compound and his private jet."

Primaries don’t “tear parties apart.” They strengthen them, produce new leaders, stimulate essential debates on direction. The “tear parties apart” language is a tool of establishment pols to discourage much needed challenges. What will hurt Dems most is another Fetterman term.

The Speaker of the House thinks a naked bike ride is terrorism. This is a sentence I never thought I’d write when I got a degree in professional writing for journalism.

Good morning! Today would be a great day to call your local TV and radio stations to ask them to please make sure they have a crew covering the No Kings protest on Saturday. Tell them the locations in case they don't know. And tell them you'll be watching for the coverage.

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

Let’s stop pretending. The issue before the Supreme Court right now is easy to understand: There are still many people on the far right who don’t see Black Americans as equals...they see them through the same filthy slur they whisper when the cameras are off. That's right...that word.

Good afternoon to everyone but especially Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who argued her heart out today in an effort to stop the Supreme Court from destroying the Voting Rights Act.

this argument is so bleak

Here’s the thing. We still have the power (probably) to say that this image must not be what America is. We still have the power to say “fuck no, we refuse to allow this to be what the streets of America look like.” Attend a “No Kings” rally this Saturday. And then vote in 2026.

John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ. Today SCOTUS will hear case that could dismantle what's left of VRA, turbocharge racial gerrymandering & rig House for GOP. Huge stakes for American democracy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As Trump wages war on DEI, Apple essentially just ratified the MAGA view of law enforcement officers as a protected class. (new @msnbc.com column)

Enjoy the Viting Rights Act while you have it. By the end of the Supreme Court's term, it may be come. Arguments in the Louisiana redacting case begin today at 10am EST: www.c-span.org/event/public...

"People often ask me what journalism I trust. So today I’m handing out letter grades to some major players." —Mark Jacob. www.stopthepresses.news/p/im-handing...

Donald Trump is giving $20 billion of taxpayer money to Argentina – to help his political ally stay in power and bail out Wall Street hedge funds – while Americans at home can't afford health care or groceries.

Where is the Republican budget? By law it was required to be passed and in place by Sept 30th. Anyone seen it? Got any idea what might be in it? Why the f-ck is the House taking a month long vacation without getting their work done? Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.

If this ain’t the truth.

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

That @JoeBiden put out this magnanimous & gracious statement AFTER all the horrible, dishonest things Trump said about Biden today, says so much about who Joe Biden is as a person. And reminds us all once again of what an utterly horrible, small, bad, & insecure person Trump is.

When a bad man does a good thing, he does not cease to be a bad man. This is a complicated moment in the Middle East. Each of us must work to make sense of it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

They’re scared.

The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode. Pedal to the floor.

Preach/Teach @velshi.com

There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers. But no $ for health insurance for Americans?

RIFed: Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas. You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.) Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.

California has taken a historic step toward justice. With the signing of my bill SB 518, @governor.ca.gov has established the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery, making California the first state in the nation to create a permanent agency dedicated to reparative justice for Black Americans.

He gets the healthcare he aims to deny millions of us.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Here’s the simple truth that Republicans in DC don’t want you to know: The government is shut down because they are choosing to DOUBLE your health care premiums. There’s a bill that would end the shutdown today AND fund health care. But Washington Republicans keep voting NO.

The correct response to Republicans widely depicting the coming protests as terrorism is to go out and protest. Each person should get 10 more people to do so. If Republicans are going to hint at violent state responses to legitimate protest, the only answer is bigger numbers.

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee surely is sending a message to the world with this award. Excerpt from their press release: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

An important read.

Well this ought to be a bigger story.

1. Today, I have a few things to say about that putz Stephen Miller. First, he’s been on TV a lot lately, because that’s how he pours more poison into the president’s already-poisoned brain.

Let’s be clear. Trump was prosecuted because he COMMITTED CRIMES.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’